I’ve lived in the US for over 40 years and can’t imagine a single case where your plan would actually work without being retaliated against and fired a year or so later. I’m in both an at-will and right-to-work state. Again, if I were going to die on a hill and start an action against my employer that includes lawyers and risk losing everything, it would be for much higher compensation than 40 dollars a month.

You don’t live in reality if you think anyone is going to retain a labor lawyer and sue their employer over using an authenticator app without a phone stipend.

Congratulations Ruud on an amazing job!

I have no union and no leverage, they said no. What am I going to do, quit over using an app? My job pays my bills and I don’t have another one lined up, this isn’t the hill I’d die on.

video games after the PS1 era. I grew up with the NES - PS1 then got tired of video games in college and never really get into games since and I find them to be a chore when I try, even the old ones I used to like. Strangely though I do enjoy repairing them and I’ve been slowly fixing the old stuff I had in boxes in my closet like an old Game Gear by replacing the capacitors updating the screen. I never once used it since LOL. I’ll probably end up selling it or giving it to the kids

Imagine going to university and graduating with “Addiction Expert” written out on your psychology degree lol

Everyone at my job who refused this and caused a huge stink are the ones that are seemingly not around about a year and half later. Not saying you aren’t right or anything but I put the stupid app on my phone.

Sorry you being able to store child porn on my instance is considered pearl clutching. No fucking way I want that responsibility because I like to read memes.

Oh yeah; I see the benefits of meme communities, but it takes a lot of work running a vegan one. During that time, I was exposed to a lot of material that I don’t wish to be any more including some really insane things like people hurting small animals on video and sending it to me. Big picture for me and vegantheoryclub.org is that I’m in my 40s and I’m looking for similar people in a similar place to bullshit with and post cooking and mutual aid online. I’m not really trawling for vegan converts. While obviously conversion and convincing are important as vegans since we are a huge minority with a moral philosophy the biggest challenge as I see it is recidivism. People fail at veganism because once they make the jump, they have nowhere else to go or to talk to, so I hope this small lemmy server for the population it ends up attracting can help them with that. I don’t see it as a tool for drawing engagement or mass numbers like the lemmy.vg person wants to do, and I definitely am done dealing with these fucking assholes who troll vegan forums who after removing their posts taunt you for weeks because they are miserable losers with no one to talk to and no social skills. To be honest I hate them.

I don’t think using a bot to copy memes is a valuable service at all. It becomes completely divorced from its context.

It is a great article and a conclusion I didn’t draw naturally myself but once I saw it I couldn’t un-see it with regards to veganism and how capitalism interacts with it. This is why I promote making food from scratch and bypassing the food processing industries as much as you can within you control - these value-add businesses are carnist and do not share my values so I don’t want to help them profit.

Yeah I don’t think it’s a good idea either. Can’t have a circlejerk without the original. Overall I don’t think Lemmy is a replacement for reddit, it’s something different and better so I’m not looking to rehash any reddit ideas or memes.

Bigger picture for me is I ran and grew that meme community since 2018 and am tired of it. I think it is effective at what it does which is targeting vegetarians and literally hundreds of people have thanked me at the time for helping them cross the bridge to veganism, but it was a different time and different place. I also don’t think the few thousand people on Lemmy are a big enough group for that. Without the comments, users and community it’s just spam.

They took over the vegan circlejerk subreddit after I left reddit and don’t know them, they run a mastodon server that I don’t really understand and seem to be using bots to bridge reddit posts. My instance is bot free.

vegantheoryclub.org is cooler!

The circus of American politics has been going on for 250 years since you genocided the people who lived there first and set up your entire perpetually corrupt oligarchy. All American politicians are majorly corrupt not sure why you would put that in scare quotes. You live in a military empire that maintains order with nuclear violence.

I’m also free to comment and say whatever I want

Why on would I doxx myself to you creeps on Lemmy, weird that you are asking for my personal info

I’m just tired of hearing about your loser election in your loser country.

You’re totally ok to not care that the leader of your country is a corrupt octogenarian with a corrupt family. Both of the “choices” you have are the same in your horror show of a country

I’m sure the faceless board members and institutional investors are really moved

If I weren’t about to be the victim of American foreign policy regardless of who wins the election I would find it hilarious that the American system is so dysfunctional that half of Americans will make excuses for the fact the presidents failson filmed himself smoking crack with hookers and recklessly driving with guns because the alternative is they think their rigged elections will select Hitler.